Doesn't Basso deserve privacy?

Published 8:00 pm, Thursday, November 1, 2007

deserve privacy?

Concerning the controversy over the recent private messages of Pauline Basso to an unknown party, it seems the NAACP is really without a cause.

The essential core of the matter is not what Basso is alleged to have said, but rather the sacred illusion of privacy. The NAACP fails to recognize this in its effort to raise an issue where there is no real issue.

The real world of likes and dislikes, of love and hate, of agreement and disagreement, cannot be swept under the rug and an illusion created to force public conformance to a set of social and political rules favorable to any minority or cultural group. There seems to be just too many minority groups telling other people how to live their lives.

No legislation from any corner of a political universe is going to suppress the thoughts and sayings of others not in agreement with superficial created standards. Once again the NAACP has missed the boat in its concentration on what Basso is alleged to have said and not on the right to privacy so essential to its own growth.

There is no reason for Basso to apologize or genuflect to anyone, least of all the NAACP. Basso is a political representative on the city council. She is continually fighting for the little people. That makes the Republican party's slogan "People over politics" a mockery, a fraud, a deceit.

She was stabbed in the back by her own party, but her integrity has stood the test and she has been re-elected. I urge all thinking voters to break political bondage and vote for Basso.

As to the NAACP, stop looking for a cause and think of cultivating cultural relationships that will serve your cause. Concentrating on the past, you're tripping over your future.